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Although he recorded frequently through the 1950s and 1960s, R&B singer Titus Turner today remains to be best known like a composer, authoring such perennials as “Leave My Kitten Alone,” “All over the World,” and “Sticks and Stones.” Given birth to in Atlanta, GA, in 1933, Turner produced his documented …

New Orleans R&B legend Adam “Glucose Youngster” Crawford was created in the Crescent Town on Oct 12, 1934. He was raised performing in his Baptist chapel choir, additionally learning piano and playing trombone in the Booker T. Washington SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL marching music group. In 1950 Crawford and eight classmates …

Not entirely quite happy with being truly a 1950s R&B celebrity on the effectiveness of his immortal Fresh Orleans vintage “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” singer Lloyd Price yearned for massive pop approval. He discovered it, too, having a storming rock and roll & move reading from the historic blues “Stagger Lee” …

Lee Dorsey epitomized the loose, easygoing attraction of New Orleans R&B perhaps a lot more than any other musician from the ’60s. Dealing with renowned Crescent City manufacturer/article writer Allen Toussaint, Dorsey typically provided good-time party music having a playful love of life and a loping, cool backbeat. Actually if …

Tommy Ridgley was in the Crescent Town R&B picture when it initial caught fireplace, and he remained a very pleased section of that same picture until his loss of life in 1999. Which was a whole lot of years behind a mike, but Ridgley hardly ever sounded the slightest little …

Thurston Harris recorded using the Lamplighters, among the many groupings on the first R&B picture in South Central LA, in the first ’50s. The group afterwards evolved in to the Tenderfoots, then your Sharps, and it had been under this last name these were acknowledged to if they supported Harris …

Within the mid- to later ’50s, pianist Jimmy Beasley documented a few of the most faithfully Fats Domino-like music of the time for Modern Reports. Beasley, unlike Domino, wasn’t from New Orleans. However the resemblance to Domino on a lot of his monitors wasn’t a major accident, as a lot …

He hardly ever received the accolades directed at famous brands Sam Cooke, Clyde McPhatter, and Adam Brown, but Small Willie John rates as you of R&B’s most influential performers. His muscular high timbre and tremendous technical and psychological range belied his early age (his initial hit emerged when he was …

Charles Sheffield was an early-’60s R&B vocalist from Lake Charles, LA, noted for the community/regional strike “It’s Your Voodoo Functioning,” that is acclaimed more right now than when it debuted on Excello Information in 1961. Sheffield (aka Mad Puppy) was miscast in his birthplace, that is known for generating zydeco …

Ernie K-Doe scored one of the primary strikes (most likely the biggest) in the annals of New Orleans R&B with “Mother-in-Law,” a humorous lament that struck a chord with listeners of most stripes coming to the very best of both pop and R&B graphs in 1961. The melody became K-Doe’s …